Authors Ruth Saunders and John Smythe offer tips for aspiring female entrepreneurs who are starting out or growing their businesses.

Lunch and Learn: Female entrepreneurs – secrets of their success

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In this Lunch and Learn, authors Ruth Saunders and John Smythe offer tips for aspiring female entrepreneurs who are starting out or growing their businesses. 

This is based on their interviews with 52 successful women for their book 

Female entrepreneurs – the secrets of their success.

From their extensive research, Ruth and John also provide insight into what struck them most, including one founder's ability to hold down a corporate post, run a start-up on the side and bring up three young children as a single mother.

The ages of the 52 female entrepreneurs interviewed ranged from 12 to mid-60s, demonstrating that you can start a business at any age and any stage in your life.

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Lunch and Learn: Female entrepreneurs – the secrets of their success

Authors Ruth Saunders and John Smythe offer tips for female founders who are starting or growing businesses.

Hello, I am passionate about building businesses and have been running my own for over 40 years. I started my first enterprise whilst at school operating a successful window cleaning round during the holidays. 

I then spent 20 years building a very successful transport business, which I also started from scratch. 

I set up my consultancy business in 2001 after selling my company and have since helped many small and medium sized businesses grow and develop and would love to help you do the same

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“After taking our previous business from zero to a multi-million exit, we now help business owners and managers, to grow and scale their businesses” Jamie Christoforou FCIM, CEO of Zero to Exit Ltd
We have taken a real business from zero, through to a multi-million exit. We mentor and train from real life experience. You can read our story below.
Back in November 2001, Jamie Christoforou arrived in Plymouth on a National Express coach, with two bags and £50 in his pocket. He didn’t have a job or any form of income and barely had enough to cover one week’s rent for a bedsit near the train station. He just hoped that the landlord who said he would meet him there, actually turned up, otherwise he would have been sleeping on the streets. Some would say he was the definition of a lost cause. But that didn’t stop him. In 2002, with no business qualifications or degrees, Jamie and Kevin, decided to start their own business. With no money and no idea what they were doing, it’s safe to say that their friends and family weren’t exactly optimistic about it. In fact, Kevin’s parents whose house they were planning on running the business from, said they couldn’t do it from their house. But they were adamant about proving everyone that doubted them wrong. 19 years later at the age of 37 and 45, Jamie &amp; Kevin officially retired!  After pulling off a multi-million business exit, retiring themselves and their family, and accumulating a wealth of knowledge about starting, scaling, and selling businesses, they made it their mission to help businesses and start-ups like you, formulate strategies for consistent growth.
Jamie mentors business owners and managers using the Zero to Exit 4-Step Formula. Jamie works with a select few businesses at any one time. If you are an ambitious business owner, and you are open, willing and have the ability to invest time, money and energy into a solution to take your business from where you are currently, to where you want to be, please visit <a href=&apos;https://calendly.com/zte-jc/discovery-call&apos; target=&apos;_self&apos;>Jamie&apos;s calendar here</a> to book your free Zero to Exit discovery call.
Zero to Exit Ltd also runs online training courses at various times during the year. These are both live in small group via Zoom, as well as recorded on-demand, to learn at your own pace (coming later this year).
To be kept undated on the latest courses and workshops, you can <a href=&apos;https://keap.app/contact-us/4896207926355901&apos; target=&apos;_self&apos;>join our updates list here</a>.
We look forward to hearing from you!

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Jamie Christoforou FCIM Business Mentoring

“After taking our previous business from zero to a multi-million exit, we now help business owners and managers, to grow and scale their businesses” 

Jamie mentors business owners and managers using the Zero to Exit 4-Step Formula. This covers attracting potential customers, Converting these into paying customers, nurturing the relationship with the customer and how to grow and scale your business. These are just the four broad areas to the Zero to Exit 4-Step Formula.

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I am the Queen of Reinvention, certified in Human Design and Emotional Intelligence. I’m also a long-time student of Abraham Hicks (The Law of Attraction). Entrepreneurs hire me because secretly, they know they’re capable of so much more, but either they don’t know what’s stopping them from taking the next move or they do and they’re ignoring their intuition. Is this YOU? That’s totally normal. That’s where all my clients begin. I like to ask challenging questions, so let’s start. Do you value yourself? Do you fantasise about a different or much better life when you have space and time for yourself? I’ve been here myself Friends and colleagues would say to me - you’re so successful, how do you do it? But I didn’t feel successful. I had nothing other than my work. I’d worked globally in the boardrooms of several blue-chip companies, as an Executive Coach and team-building expert. I was highly trained and knew I was talented. Twenty years ago I was using some pretty advanced energy and play techniques which got great results. I helped grown men in grey suits get out of their heads and into their gut and their intuition. I had great fun at work. Away from that environment, I had a secret life going on in my head which meant I was desperately trying to find someone to love me. In 2013 I began dating my husband, John. We dated way back in 1983 and somehow 30 years later, John discovered me online. That&apos;s a story for another time. I found John and the Law of Attraction at the same time. Neither of us was in a good place, but we made a promise to ourselves that we were going to help each other, communicate openly and find happiness together. The Law of Attraction most definitely helped us both examine our behaviour and what we were attracting, but it wasn’t until I was introduced to Human Design that the magic happened. I began to see I wasn’t valuing my uniqueness. I began to see I was hiding and keeping myself small. I began to see the life that I’d kept secret from others WAS how I was meant to be As The Queen of Reinvention, I help women understand their uniqueness and how to make their secret life come true.

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I am the Queen of Reinvention, certified in Human Design and Emotional Intelligence. I’m also a long-time student of Abraham Hicks (The Law of Attraction). Entrepreneurs hire me because secretly, they know they’re capable of so much more, but either they don’t know what’s stopping them from taking the next move or they do and they’re ignoring their intuition. Is this YOU? That’s totally normal. That’s where all my clients begin. I like to ask challenging question

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